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PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 195$ ’59 Dodge Offers Style, Comfort, Economy The tail fins of 1959 Dodge cars, like this Custom Roydl four-door Lancer, have softer, more flaring lines. A new high-contour roof provides more headroom and allows easier entry and exit. New engines and advanced torsionaire suspension provide greater gas and tire economies. Driver comfort, convenience and control features—including swing- out, swivel seats—highlight the 1959 Dodge, while jet-age refine ments of the dart look create a new and distinctive exterior de sign. The swivel-type front seats, an instrument panel concentrated more closely around a new “eas- ier-to-get-by” steering wheel, plus pushbutton control of virtually all driver operations, head the list of 1959 advancements inside the new cars. New styling treatment of both front and rear, side and roof, and sharply defined, canted fins intro duce a dramatically new concept of styling. A striking exterior design is keynoted by arched headlight “eye-brows” which curve inward and downward to the front grille. New taillights—patterned after jet-tubes—and new rear-end “con trol surfaces” on the fins provide a fleet, futuristic image. The new models go on display October 10, according to C. M. Smith, general manager, Smith Motor Company. Additional new, designed-for- the-driver features of the Dodge include: ‘1) push-button controls for the heater and air-condition er, (2) a safety speedometer which changes color as speed in creases, (3) an electronic rearview mirror that automatically cuts glare from overtaking ear head lights, (4) an outside rear-view mirror that can be controlled from inside, (5) an automatic headlight dimmer, and (6) a higher steering wheel that is slightly flattened at the top, affording better road vis ion and at the same time, making it easier for the driver to get in and out of the car. Colors and color-combinations available on the new vehicles will feature more light hues, following both style and safety trends. Re cent studies have shown that light er tints act as safety features. The new swing-out, swivel seats were termed a major new develop ment in car passenger accommo dations by Smith. “The swivel front seats provide easy accessibility for all passen gers in our newer, lower automo biles,” Smith said. “Not only do they provide easy entrance and exit for front-seat passengers— especially the ladies who often wear straight skirts—but they also aid passengers entering or getting out of back seats of two-door models.” Four-door hardtop models have a new roof silhouette—featuring a slightly raised rear roof section for increased passenger head- room. Combined with the new roof is an advanced rear-window con taining approximately 15 percent greater glass area for added rear visibility. “The 1959 Dodge models have important features to put the driver more than ever in the driv er’s seat and cater to his comfort and control of the automobile,” Smith said. The instrument panel is cluster ed closely around the steering col umn, so that the car can be oper ated without a change in the posi tion of the driver and without his eyes being away from the road. The push-button transmission 's located at the driver’s left—away from accidental contact by other front seat passengers. Speed- changes can be judged without looking directly at the speedomet er, via “peripheral vision color awareness” as speed is accelerat ed. Speed indicators are green to 30 mph, yellow from 30 to 50 mph and red above 50 mph. Heater, cigarette lighter, head lights and windshield wiper push buttons are close to the driver and easy to operate. The road-proven “Torsion-Aire” suspension system has been im proved. Low pressure tires are offered by Dodge in 1959 for a softer, more comfortable ride. Miss Kemper Is Pledged To Club The 10 women’s social clubs at Emory University pledged 155 girls at the end of rush activities this Fall. Among those pledging Emory clubs is; Sinclair Kemper, 1601 Circle Drive, Fleur-de-lis club. Hospital Patients HOSPITAL ' Mrs. Tomye Ayers and baby girl, 937 Cline St. Mrs. Annette Avery and baby boy, 1400 Second St. Mrs. Leila Bedenbaugh, Route 3. Mrs. Elise Burnett, 2804 Hunt Ave. Mrs. Christine Burns, 1518 Har rington St. Henry Rufus Boozer, Player St. Mrs. Essie Cook, Rt. 2, Prosper ity. Miss Susan Cook, 1919 Nance St. Mrs. Helen Cox, 1525 Caldwell St. Mrs. Jessie Douglas, Rt. 1. Mrs. Agnes S. Derrick, Chapin. Mrs. Lucille Huggin, 2301 Nance St. Mrs. Dixie Havird, Rt. 1, Salu da. William D. Kinney, 1303 Second St. Miss Annie Knotts, Prosperity. Mrs. Velda Livingston and baby girl, 2008 Charles St. Mrs. Myrtle Longshore and baby boy, Rt. 4. Mrs. Margaret McAlhaney and baby girl, 713 Boundary St. Mrs. Estelle Marlowe, 1519 Har rington St. Mrs. Euna Mize, Rt: 1. Miss Linda Pitts, 307 S. Wood- row St., Clinton. Miss Clara Rinehart, 1615 First St. John Henry Ruff, Rt. 2. Lester Shealy, Kinards. Mrs. Anna Shealy, 1309 Jeffer son St. Mrs. Gallic M. Thomas, 1210 Fair St. Mrs. Julia Wise, Wiseman Ho tel. Mamie Chaplin and baby girl, Rt. 4. Fannie May Glymph, Rt. 1. Eliza Gilliam, 833 Harper St. Eula Mae Monts, Rt. 1, Pros perity. A. C. Rutherford, Rt. 1. Johnnie Mae Summers, 216 Calhoun St. THEY MAY BE SAFE ... but DON’T KEEP YOUR DIAMONDS UNDER LOCK AND KEY! ♦ Your diamonds are probably safe enough kept under lock and key, but you’re missing the enjoyment of wearing them ... so get them out of that lock box! A remounting job can be had for as little as $21.50. If you have more than one ring, or as many as three or more diamonds, you can have* these stones set in a new Princess mounting for as little as $35. Just recently we have remounted customers diamond into beautiful Princess rings and they were delighted with the results. .f' Why don’t you get your diamonds together and bring them down for an estimate? W. E. TURNER - JEWELERS - Caldwell Street Newberry, S. C. Turkish Tobacco Farming Is On The Increase; Graham One Of First Here Changes In Your S. S. Some cotton farmers in the Southeast are trying a few acres of Turkish tobacco as a sideline source of income, reports E. N. Williams, State supervisor of Ne gro extension work in South Carolina where part of the small crop is grown. Turkish tobacco, used mainly for blending with regular domes tic types in the manufacture of cigarettes, is in increased demand as a result of the higher cigarette consumption which is partly ac counted for by the population rise. Twenty years ago, when Ameri cans were smoking only 158 bil lion cigarettes annually, imports of tobacco from Turkey totaled less than 20 million pounds. This year, with U. S. smokers expected to consume 437 billion cigarettes, close to 60 million pounds of Turkish tobacco will be imported. To this will be added an unofficial estimate of 200,000 pounds grown in this country. One of the first colored farmers tobegin growing Turkish tobacco in South Carolina, says Mr. Wil liams, is Eugene Graham of New berry County. He has been grow ing one to two acres of the crop since 1951 to supplement his in come from cotton and milk. Thir ty-eight other colored farmers in the county also are growing the Turkish variety. Last year, Mr. Graham grossed $712 off an acre and a fourth of the crop. His yield was down somewhat from 1955, his best year, when he grossed $1,137 off an acre and a half. He has received from 82 to 99 cents a pound for the to bacco—almost twice the average returns from regular flue-cured varieties. Mr. and Mrs. Graham operate a 202-acre farm which belongs to the estate of his father who died in 1946. Last year they planted 12 acres to cotton (and harvested 8 bales), 40 to corn, 15 to oats, 10 to field peas, and 7 to wheat. The rest of their farm is divided be tween woodland and pastures for their hogs and small dairy herd. Their 8 milk cows produced more than 14,000 gallons of milk for market in 1957. The Grahams have received con siderable advice and counsel on crop production and livestock man agement from their county agent, B. J. Gill, and help with food pre servation and improvement from theh- home agent, Mrs. Lillian G. Saunders. Mr. and Mrs. Graham have been farming on their own since 1937. They hope soon to cut back more on cotton and increase their Turk ish tobacco to 4 or 5 acres. Also they plan to enlarge their swine and dairy herds. “With my tractor and other equipment, I think I can handle the increased production,” says Mr. Graham. (By MARTHA F. PRESSLY) (Manager of the Greenwood Social Security Dist. Office.) In the first article of this se ries I outlined the most important changes in the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program brought about by the 1958 amend ments to the social security law. Today, I shall discuss inunore de tail changes in the law as they af fect the dependents of retired, dis abled, or deceased insured working people. I feel that the most important changes in this field are those re lating to the families of workers who have become too disabled for further substantial gainful work, and to dependent parents of work ers who have died. The first of these important amendments concerns families of insured workers who are no long er able to do substantial gainful work. While monthly benefit pay ments to qualified disabled work ers have been made beginning with July 1957, until now, no pay ments were possible to their fami lies. Payments to them could not be made until the disabled bread winner reached age 65 or died be fore that time. We of the social security office have had occasion to observe many cases of hardship resulting from this provision in the old law. The disability benefit payments to the disabled worker offset in part his loss of earnings from work, but they did not provide adequate protection for his dependent fam ily. The medical expenses incurred through disability are a major fi nancial problem for most of these families. Furthermore, the child ren are more dependent than are; the children of retired workers. It is usually necessary that the moth er remain at home and not at tempt to supplement the family income. In many cases the care required by the disabled person makes it impossible for his wife to work outside the home. Insurance protection in the form of monthly benefits, is now providr ed the disabled person’s children under 18 and any older child un der a disability beginning before he became 18. Benefits are also payable to the disabled person’s wife if she has in her care a child eligible for benefits. An estimated 180,000 dependent of totally dis abled workers now on the benefi- Injury Fatal To Jesse Lewis Jessie Lewis, 50, town electri cian at Prosperity, was fatally in jured in a car-oil truck collision Thursday on By-Pass Highway 291 west of Shriners’ Hospital for Crippled Children, Greenville. According to State Highway Patrolman Harold Owens a 1952 Dodge, in which Lewis was rid ing, entered Highway 291 in the path- of an oncoming truck and the collision destroyed the car and crushed the front of the truck. Mr. Lewis was thrown com pletely out of the car and was found on the shoulder of the road, the patrolman said. Hoyt A. Boland, 45, also of Prosperity, listed as driver of the car, was treated for a leg injury, lacerations of the face and leg, knee, a head injury and a possible chest injury. Harold Whiten, 34, of Green ville, driver of the Consolidated Oil Co. truck, was hurt, taken to Greenville General Hospital, where he was treated and dismis sed, the patrolman said. According to Owens, the truck was not going at. an excessive speed when the wreck occurred about a mile west of Shriners’ Hospital. Fuel oil flowed over the road, but did not ignite. Mr. Lewis had been superinten dent of water and lights in Pros perity for the past 16 years. He was born in Columbia, son of the late Thomas W. and Mrs. Hattie Varnadore Lewis. He was reared in Chester County, where he lived for a number of years prior to moving to Prosperity more than 30 years ago. He was a member of Wightman Methodist Church and Masonic Lodge 115 AFM at Prosperity. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Myra Schumpert Lewis; three sons, Burton W. Lewis, a student at Clemson College; Hugh C. Lew is of the U. S. Air Force, Savan nah, Ga., and Ralph Lewis of the home; four sisters, Mrs. R. R. Templeton of Blairs, Va.; Mrs. M. J. Mitchell of Hatboro, Pa.; Mrs. B. T. Vaughn and Mrs. W. H. McArthur, both of Newberry; four brothers, B. F. Lewis of Co- ( lumbia, J. A. Lewis of Great! Falls, G. D. Lewis of Montville, N. J., and R. K. Lewis of Lang- Pa.; and two grandchil- Funeral services wet*e conduct ed Saturday from Wightman Methodist Church by Rev. Paul C. Scutt. Burial was in Prosperity Cemetery. Active palloearers were Cor nell Wise, Walter Hamm, Frank Dennis, C. K. Wheeler Jr., Jake Bowers and Jeff Hamm Jr. Honorary pallbearers were members of Prosperity Town Council, Cornell Bedenbaugh, Ralph Black, C. K. Wheeler, Sr., Billy Leaphart, D. H. Hamm Sr., S. W. Shealy, D. H. Hamm Jr., James Mills, Colie Wessinger, Wilbur W T essinger, and Hunter Fellers. Miss Pearl Wilson Rites Sunday Funeral services for Mrs. Pearl King Wilson, 58, of 518 Howard St., Columbia, who died Saturday, were conducted at 4 p.m. Sunday from St. Paul’s Lutheran Church by her pastor, Rev. George E. Meetze, pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Incarnation. Burial was in Greenlawn Memorial Ceme- , Columbia. Mrs. Wilson was born March 15, 1900, in Newberry, daughter of the late Mrs. Bedenbaugh King and Charles Edward King. She made her home in Columbia most of her life and for the past several years was employed with the sales tax division of the South Carolina Tax Commission. S. C. Tinsley Dies In Laurens Shirl Clarence Tinsley, 72, died late Saturday night at his home in Laurens following several years illness. Survivors include his wridow, Mrs. Margaret Tinsley; three sons, L. E. Tinsley of Laurens; M-Sgt. Hubert Tinsley, U. S. Ma rine Corps, Washington, D. C.; S. C. Tinsley, Jr., of Newberry; two daughters, Mrs. Frances Wheeler of Oswego and Mrs. Le noir Martin of Newport Nev/s, Va.; two brothers, Gus and Lee Tinsley, both of Newberry; two sisters, Mrs. Maggie Moreland of Newberry and Mrs. Fannie Brown of Columbia; 13 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held at 2 p. m. Tuesday from the Kennedy Mortuary Chapel by Rev. John R. Waters. Burial was in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Laurens. ciary rolls can qualify for pay ments under this provision in the amended law. Before the enactment of the 1958 amendments, an aged parent, however dependent, could never get benefit payments based on the earnings of a son or daughter if there was a surviving wife, de pendent widower, or child whp was entitled or who could later become entitled to payments. This restriction applied even in cases where those survivors never ac tually became beneficiaries. I recall, in particular, a case where an insured worker , died leaving a widow who was no long er living with him at the time of his death. His other survivor was an aged ( mother who was keeping house for him and dependent on him for her means of livelihood. His death left her destitute. A monthly social security check as a surviving, dependent parent would have prevented this situation. She could not qualify as a beneficiary, however, because the estranged wife was also a surivor. Under the law, as amended, this parent would also be eligible for surviv- vor’s benefit payments. An esti mated 90,000 aged, dependent par ents can now apply for survivors’ McDwam Dies; Sisters Here John Robert Mcllwain,. 78, brother of Mrs. D. E. Halfac** and Mrs. Herman Half acre, both of Newberry, died at an Anderson hospital Thursday morning folloW 1 - ing an illness of several weeks. Funeral services were conducted! Friday at 3 p. m. at the Long; Cane Presbyterian Church by F. B. O’Shields. Burial was in tiM| church cemetery. ;w- Mr. Mcllwain was a lifelong? resident of Abbeville County, * son of the late George Eakin and Rebecca Stevenson Mcllwain. Ha had served as an elder in the Long Cane Presbyterian Church for past 25 years. Dr. Buie Talks To Kiwanians aDr. T. S. Buie, State Conserva- donist from Columbia, addressed the Kiwanis Club at their regular 1$eeting last Thursday. He discnift- sed the periods of land use and benefits under this new provisioni^? 6 changes in the agricultural in law picture that have taken place m in the law. Since an application must be fil ed before benefits can be paid, persons receiving disability insur ance benefits, and who have elig ible dependents, should contact their district office. Parents of deceased workers who were finan cially dependent on the deceased son or daughter should also con tact the social security office. The district office serving this area is located at 516 S. Main Street, Greenwood, S. C. In my next article I shall discuss other changes in the law which af fect dependents of retired or in sured workers. Prosperity PTA Meets Tonight The Prosperity Parent-Teacher Association will hold its first meeting of the new school year Thursday evening, October 9, at 8:00 o’clock in the school auditor ium. A skit j entitled, “The Easy Tasks of P.T.A. President will be presented, followed by a recep tion honoring the faculty and the new patrons of the school. Everyone is urged to attend. South Carolina, also the WateNP- shed program. He heartily cMfr» mended the local soil conserva tion personnel for their servicss- J. F. Hawkins and Emory Bs&- enbaugh were guests. v. The club elected the following officers for 1959: President, Dave Morrison; Vice- President, Wayne Martin; Dfav ectors, A. E. Busby, Clarkson, T. J. Eskridge, Henderson, John T. Norris, L. D. Nichols, Elmer Shealy. Is Winner Of Fair $1,500 . James Lane, colored residea& cf Whitmire, won the $1500 grand prize at the Newberry County Fair last Saturday night. He is an em ployee of E. R. Baker & Son Con struction Company. DAR CHAPTER MEETS FRIDAY Jasper Chapter, Daughters Off the American Revolution, will meet Friday afternoon, October" 10 at 4 p. m. at the home of Mrs. P» K. Harmon. Mrs. I. M. Satter- white and Mrs. James C. Kinand will be associate hostesses. : 1959 Ramblers on Sale October 8 The compact Rambler, which set an alltime high sales record this year, features new styling and engineering changes de signed to further increase economy of operation-and durability for 1959. The new six-cylinder and V-8 models are now on sale at RUFF NASH MOTORS in Newberry. Shown is the 1959 Rambler Cross Country foor-door station wagon, the most popular model in the Rambler line. All Rambler bodies are “deep-dipped” in a rust-preventing primer during manufac turing to give the car longer life. Eleven Rambler models, including station wagons, hard- tops and sedans, are offered in the Six and V-8 Series. Also available are the Rambler American series, including a new Rambler American economy station wagon. COME BY TODAY AND SEE THE 1959 NASH RAMBLER — AT — Ruff Nash Motors Caldwell Street Newberry, S. C.